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Free Energy

FREE ENERGY bio:

Cult Minneapolis rockers Hockey Night split up a couple of years back, and for a time mainmen Scott Wells and Paul Sprangers continued to operate under that moniker. They altered their musical orientation, got signed to DFA, and recorded an album with LCD Soundsystems James Murphy playing bass and manning the mixing desk, and Pat Mahoney on drums. FACT was fortunate enough to hear a few tracks at DFA HQ last year and can tell you that they sound great very un-DFA in a way, with a real high-fidelity, guitar-heavy and totally unironic AM-rock sound reminds us of Tom Petty and great summers.

And now

The band is a quintet Sprangers and Wells are joined by Geoff Bucknam, Nicholas Shuminsky and Evan Wells and theyve changed their name to Free Energy. DFA are currently giving away a free track by the band, Dream City, taken from the forthcoming album. Its the first publicly available material by Free Energy and its brilliant, obviously.

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